Re: SQL99 ARRAY support proposal

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: johnnnnnn <john(at)phaedrusdeinus(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL99 ARRAY support proposal
Date: 2003-03-13 22:29:47
Message-ID: 3E71065B.80804@joeconway.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
>>Hmmm -- I doubt that would fly, although I see it is specifically
>>allowed as a function name (func_name_keyword list). Anyone have
>>opinions on this either way?
>
> Good point --- it would work today, but any small tweak in the JOIN
> grammar might force us to reserve the keyword altogether. It'd be
> safer to use a name that is not an SQL keyword ...

I'm leaning toward implode() and explode() now anyway because split()
uses a regex for the delimiter in PHP (and probably Perl), and I was not
planning to get that fancy.

Joe

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